Culture: Headlines on Client 9 Fine, None Sublime

This is a draw pretty much -- the News gets the rhyming cadence and tortured spelling of vintage Post but the Post counters with simplicity and refreshing colloquialism. Oh yeah and the Times cleared up the headline from the web by pointing out that the Guv was a client. So far the only punishment Spitzer has received is the removal of his upper lip and really, isn't that enough?
Sex shame? Get real -- the world's oldest profession ought to be legal, nothing would cut down on sex trafficking and forced prostitution like registration and unionization.

Culture: Spitzer ?! I Hardly Knew Her ! Spitz Supporters in Fits Over Prostie Blitz, Impending Crix

There was a time when New Yorkers could look forward to the latest impending scandal with the glee that only Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, and more specifically it's outrageous headlines, would bring. Today The New York Times breaks the story online that embattled Governor Spitzer has been "involved" in a prostitution ring.

Now at this early stage of the game I can understand the grey lady hedging her bets by being vague, but "involved"? Or as their headline puts it -- 'linked"? It makes him sound more like a denizen of the Player's Ball then, say, hunky Richard Gere in Pretty Woman.

Depending on whether the Governor was pimp, john, book-keeper, prostitute or hired muscle, the Post would have it's choice of unsavory innuendo filled headers. Yet, sadly the Post seems to have taken a page from Murdoch's other NYC property The Wall Street Journal and toned it's front page down to a dull roar. On the other hand, the Daily News doesn't give them much competition (see below). Still -- lame photoshopping? Where are your standards?



The overall message in this still-breaking scandal is clear: New York Post, we'll be watching to see what you do tomorrow -- don't let us down!

The Interwebs: Warpublican Storms the Shores of Blogistan

Another landmark of investigative journalism

For those of you who like your political news and opinions delivered with an edge may I recommend a site new to my Cool Blogs list-- Warpublican. Political junkies -- and you know who you are -- commence the drooling over a site that has already brought shame and dishonor to the New York Post. Oh wait, Rupert Murdoch did that. Anyway, let the good folks at Warpublican get all I.F. Stone on your asses...